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Literary Theory: History, Debates, and Key Concepts

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Historical Development of Literary Theory

Ancient times (Aristotle's "Poetics") -> Enlightenment = Poetics
Mid 19th century - literary science = Descriptive Poetics (theory of composition, stylistics, genology, study of verse)
The end of the 19th century - birth of the theory of literature = Historical Poetics (approach to studying film)

Literary Science vs. Literary Studies

  • Restrictiveness
  • A search for models, patterns, and schemes in the literary work
  • Repetitiveness
  • Making theory firmer, more coherent
  • Borrowing from linguistics
  • (For example, Structuralists in the mid 20th century)

Interpretation in Literary Theory

Monistic Systems

  • Psychoanalysis (relation of conscious and unconscious psychological processes)
  • Hermeneutics (holy texts)
  • Phenomenology (experienced
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Understanding Democracy and Republics

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Democracy

A democracy is a political system that empowers individuals to participate in the governing process. There are two primary types of democracies:

Direct Democracy

In a direct democracy, citizens directly participate in making laws and governing. Ancient Athens serves as a historical example, where citizens could attend assemblies and directly influence decision-making.

Representative Democracy

Representative democracies involve citizens electing representatives who make laws on their behalf. Spain and the United States exemplify this system, where citizens vote for legislators who then enact legislation. In the US, even the president is chosen by electors representing the citizens' wishes.

Other forms of democracy include:

  • Deliberative Democracy:
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Untitled 1

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Sociolinguistics

Monolingual

A monolingual community is a community where there is only

one dominant language which used to cover all society

domains.

Multilingual

A multilingual community is one where there are more than

one dominant language to communicate with.

Formality scale

This scale helps assessing the influence of social setting or type

of interaction on language choice.

Ethnicity

Relating to large groups of people classed according to

common racial, national, tribal, religious, linguistic, or cultural

origin or background, i.E. Ethnic minority.

Social factors

1 The participant: who is speaking and to who

2 The setting or social context of the interaction.

3 The topic: what is being talked about?

4 The function: why are they talking?

Social dimensions

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Exploring Multiplication and Division: Practical Applications and Teaching Strategies

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Practical Questions

Propose flexible methods for learning operations based on the properties of numbers and compare them with standard algorithms. Analyze children's productions and strategies. Propose/analyze "racons" to work on division, justifying them from mathematical, educational, and curricular perspectives.

Division Corner

Through the drawing of flower petals, we'll distribute them in equal parts without any remainders. Last question: How many petals does each flower have? Is that the only possible solution? (Materials: worksheet with flowers printed or paper to draw, paper cut-outs of the petals)

Solving

24 petals = 6 flowers of 4. They do one, then the next, and then the next = commutative property.

Parts of Each Activity

  • Name
  • Description
  • SC
  • Structures
  • Metaphors
  • Properties
  • Representations
  • Re/
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Understanding Basic Concepts of Skill, Talent, and Self-Knowledge

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Basic Concepts

Skill: the ability to use one's knowledge effectively and readily in execution or performance.
Talent: a special ability that allows someone to do something well
Self-knowledge: It is understanding of one’s own capabilities, character, feelings, or motivations.
Potentiality: a quality that can be developed to make someone or something better.
Personality: it refers to individual differences in characteristic patterns of thinking feeling and behaving.
Temperament: the usual attitude, mood, or behavior of a person.
Character: the way someone thinks, feels and behaves: someone's personality.
Interest: a quality that attracts your attention and makes you want to learn more about something or to be involved in something.
Aptitude: a natural
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Exploring Modernist Poetry: Imagism and The Lost Generation

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Imagism

Imagism is considered the first important school in modernist poetry written in English. It rejected didacticism—poetry that tried to teach something—oversentimentalism, artificiality of diction (pomposity), and the constraints of meter and stanza. It aspired to less didacticism; morality was not stated; fewer feelings and more intellectualism; plainer language, closer to everyday diction; and free rhythm, meters, and stanzas.


The Lost Generation

The Lost Generation is a group of American writers who lived through World War I. They were lost in the sense that their inherited values were no longer relevant in the post-war world and because of their spiritual alienation. They did not feel that they belonged to the US or anywhere else;... Continue reading "Exploring Modernist Poetry: Imagism and The Lost Generation" »

Determinants of Health: Social Determinants, Health, and Disease

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Determinants of Health

Social Determinants and Health and Disease

Influencing Social Determinants

The way of life and the health, healthy life styles

Determinants of Health:

  • Factors which, combined together, affect the health of individuals and communities → whether people are healthy or not, is determined by their circumstances and environment
  • E.g. as where we live, the state of our environment, genetics, our income and education level, and our relationships with friends and family
  • Note: the more commonly considered factors such as access and use of health care services often have less of an impact

The determinants of health generally include:

  • The social and economic environment
  • The physical environment
  • The person’s individual characteristics and
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Macro Environmental Analysis: Factors Affecting Business and Marketing

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SET 2B) Macro Environmental Analysis

Demographic Environment: Factors relating to population, such as size, growth rate, age distribution, religious composition, and literacy levels, and aspects like composition of workforce, household patterns, regional characteristics, population shifts, etc., need to be studied as they are all part of the demographic environment.

Economic Environment: The economic environment determines the strength and size of the market. The purchasing power in an economy depends on current income, prices, savings, circulation of money, debt, and credit availability.

Government Environment: Business is highly guided and controlled by government policies. Hence, the type of government running a country is a powerful influence... Continue reading "Macro Environmental Analysis: Factors Affecting Business and Marketing" »

Business Strategy, Internationalization, and Critical Thinking

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The Strategy Concept - 5 Ps

  1. For McDonald's, the egg comes first. False
  2. Honda did not go after the biggest market. True
  3. Mintzberg's five P's are all true definitions of strategy. True
  4. Raises intriguing questions about intention: Perspective
  5. Not one of Mintzberg's 5 P's: Perception
  6. An ingrained way of perceiving the world: Perspective
  7. Consistency in behavior: Pattern
  8. Some sort of consciously intended course of action: Plan
  9. Really just a specific maneuver: Ploy
  10. A product or market: Position
  11. The most difficult to change: Perspective
  12. The most powerful: Perspective
  13. Focused on direct competition: Ploy
  14. The achievement of consistency: Pattern
  15. Encourages us to look at the survival of the fittest: Position
  16. How leaders try to establish direction for their organizations:
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In my Opinion, stress is a negative factor in the job, because it is the main reason Of bad relationships with other employees and also the lack of concentration in Many of the tasks the workers do along the day.

I think the Best way to avoid stress is to maintain an order in the job, making it less Difficult and more productive. Order is an important thing, but having a relief After work is very important too. You should do something asides from your day By day work, like exercise, reading or hanging out with friends. This will help You relax in stressful moments and help you do your job faster and easier.